Customers got the opportunity to buy fresh produce directly from the farmers at the National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation (NAMDEVCO) Farmers’ Market, Queen’s Park Savannah on Thursday, March 24 and Saturday 26, 2016.
Visitors educated at Farmers’ Market The NAMDEVCO team informed and educated the visitors to the Farmers’ Market about eating healthy, buying local, training programmes for persons interested in farming, and other marketing services offered.
See more about this on the website at: www.namdevco.com
Laughing vendors sell tomatoes, cucumbers, pimento, cauliflower, broccoli and lettuce at Farmers’ Market, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain.
Display of ochroes, leafy vegetables, cabbages, lettuce, callaloo bush or dasheen bush. Vendors of ochroes, cabbages, lettuce, callaloo bush, green plantain, green fig, dasheen and other provisions. NAMDEVCO representative gives green goody bag to customer. A display of green plantain, pineapples, eddoes, pumpkin and dasheen bush. Vendors sell pumpkin, ripe plantain, green plantain, ginger and oranges. Customer interacts with vendor selling ripe plantain, green plantain, bananas, oranges and tangerines. A display of pimento peppers, scotch bonnet peppers, melongene or egg plant, aubergine, baigan, baingan. Vendors sell pimento peppers, scotch bonnet peppers, melongene or egg plant, aubergine, baigan, and baingan. Vendor arranges the display of his jalopeno peppers, pimento peppers and hot peppers. Sweet potatoes. Smiling vendor sells pineapples to customer at Farmers’ Market. Customers look at cabbages, callaloo bush, sweet peppers and tomatoes at Farmers’ Market. Sweet potato, eddoes, dasheen, coconut, cabbage and sweet peppers. Vendor chats with couple while selling seasoning, chadon beni, celery, parsley, chive and oranges in baskets. Chadon beni, celery, parsley, chive and oranges in baskets at Farmers’ Market .Customer points at the callaloo bush or dasheen bush while vendor opens bag at Farmers’ Market. Customer picks a pineapple. In background, a vendor peels and slices a pineapple for a customer at Farmers’ Market. Vendor slices pineapples for customers next to heap of portugal/tangerine and oranges on table while customers wait at Farmers’ Market. April 2016 – Issue 21 www.sweettntmagazine.com
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